What really galls me about the online service is that Nintendo made us wait a year and a half to get these NES games, and yet they’re going to trickle most of them out at 3 games a month! What is the point of doing this? You don’t see Amazon trickling out old books. You don’t see Apple doing this with old music on i-Tunes. And where are the SNES games? Where are the Gameboy games? Where are the N64 games? (Okay, N64 games I could do without) But as much as I’d love to own these games, if Nintendo were to offer several hundred of its classic games to play for just $20 a year, that would still be a pretty good deal.

In the meantime, I recently bought the NES and SNES classic minis. Although I already bought many of these games on the Wii U virtual console, I figured that this is the only way I can “back up” these games since there is no account system, and it’s hard to know how durable the Wii U will be over the years to come. But I love having these separate pieces of hardware. I love the having the retro controllers. If Nintendo releases a Game Boy mini, I’d be the first to buy it.